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troythecatfish · 1 month

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deadpresidents · 1 month

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"I regard [the President] as a foolish and stubborn man, doing even right things in a wrong way, and in a position where the evil that he does is immensely increased by the manner of his doing it."

-- Senator John Sherman of Ohio, on President Andrew Johnson, March 1, 1868.

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the-hearth-and-the-wild · 6 months

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I don't belong to any side. What's more, I think flags are nothing but painted rags that represent rancid emotions. Just seeing someone wrapped up in one of them, spewing out hymns, badges and speeches, gives me the runs. I've always thought that anyone who needs to join a herd so badly must be a bit of a sheep himself.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Prisoner of Heaven

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gennsoup · 22 days

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"War's a banker, flesh his gold."

Aeschylus, Agamemnon

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revolutionaryeye · 2 years

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#political quotes #john kenneth galbraith

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toruandmidori · 29 days

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mental-mona · 3 months

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The time is always ripe to do right. Now is the time to make real the promise of democracy.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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miiju86 · 4 days

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“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior justification for selfishness."

- John Kenneth Galbraith

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workersolidarity · 8 months

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"If the reader thinks of our chain newspaper owners: Hearst, Howard, Patterson, and McCormack, as merely four of America's 15'000 publishers, he fails to see the danger to America from an anti-democratic, anti-American press. These four publishers put out one-fourth of all the newspapers sold daily on our streets, they own forty of the 200 big city papers which make American public opinion, they run, not only the three biggest newspaper chains in the country, but two of the three big news services which supply news to majority of America's dailies, and because they have always been anti-labor, anti-liberal, and anti-democratic even when not openly following the Mussolini and Hitler lines, they constitute what I believe is the greatest force hostile to the general welfare of the common people of America."

-George Seldas, Facts and Fascism, New York, In Fact, 1943, p. 210

Today, the media landscape is many many many times more concentrated than it was in 1943, but the Media Operators of today are no less dedicated to Fascist, anti-Labor, anti-democratic ideology as they were when Mussolini wrote a weekly column in William Randolph Hearst's newspapers until 1935.

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the-sound-ofrain · 3 months

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only wise people wish to be at the audience end of an orchestrated war.

--apollo--

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ongovernment71 · 2 years

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Psst... Hey, FBI... I posted a Betsy Ross flag picture... 😯

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troythecatfish · 11 days

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deadpresidents · 8 days

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"I had learned this morning that Mr. Buchanan had taken exception to my remark on Saturday last that I should feel that I was deserted by my political family if the members of my Cabinet should call on the President-elect before he called on me. The remark was made because it might have happened that if my Cabinet called on General Taylor he might not afterwards have chosen to call on me at all. As General Taylor belongs to a different political party from myself, and as it was his duty to call on me, if he desired to exchange civilities, I thought it was due to their own self-respect as well as to me that my Cabinet should wait until General Taylor paid his respects to me before they paid their respects to him. In this view all the members of the Cabinet expressed their concurrence on Saturday, except Mr. Buchanan. I learned this morning that Mr. Buchanan had said to a member of the Cabinet that notwithstanding my remark on Saturday he had left the Cabinet-room resolved to call on General Taylor on that day, as General Shields by appointment had called at the State Department to accompany him. He did not, however, do so; but called on General Taylor yesterday, immediately after General Taylor had called on me. Mr. Buchanan is an able man, but is in small matters without judgment and sometimes acts like an old maid."

-- President James K. Polk, on his Secretary of State James Buchanan, shortly before the inauguration of Polk's successor, President-elect Zachary Taylor, in an entry in Polk's remarkable and often immensely petty personal diary (which he religiously updated throughout his Presidency), February 27, 1849.

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dragoneyes618 · 1 year

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...[H]aving covered five presidential elections, I frankly do not know what you could write about our political process that would make it appear any stupider than it actually is.

- Dave Barry

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gennsoup · 2 months

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"The world is bad. One does not know whom to trust. The good ruler who stands for the people becomes a victim too soon. And bad rulers like bad sauce, stay longer! A world that knows not what it wants. A dizzy world, this."

Ola Rotimi, The Gods are Not to Blame

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revolutionaryeye · 2 years

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#political quotes

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